Cannot load Rails page

believe1813 2015-08-05 21:15:04 UTC #1

I launched the bitnami Ruby Stack on AWS, and I am able to see the Bitnami main page when I enter the public IP as the URL in my browser. When I run rubyconsole, and try to open the rails server, it looks to be working:

$ opt/bitnami/projects/sample/bin/rails server
=> Booting WEBrick
=> Rails 4.2.2 application starting in development on http://localhost:3000
=> Run rails server -h for more startup options
=> Ctrl-C to shutdown server
[2015-08-05 21:03:06] INFO WEBrick 1.3.1
[2015-08-05 21:03:06] INFO ruby 2.1.6 (2015-04-13) [x86_64-linux]
[2015-08-05 21:03:06] INFO WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=2166 port=3000

BUT,
When I go to port 3000:

PublicIP:3000 (it's actually http://52.4.53.230:3000/)

then I should be able to see the Rails homepage, but instead it displays: Err_Connection_Refused.
I have enabled security permissions for all incoming/outgoing traffic in my AWS security settings, as well as my local firewall settings.

Any suggestions??

jota 2015-08-06 10:58:08 UTC #2

Hi @believe1813,

It seems that you didn't open fine the 3000 port, you should receive some information about the incoming request to the 3000 port when you launch that command, did you follow our guide about how to do that?

https://wiki.bitnami.com/Amazon_cloud/How_to_configure_ports_for_remote_access

Apart from that, have you checked our guide about Ruby and how to start with the sample project?

https://wiki.bitnami.com/Infrastructure_Stacks/BitNami_Ruby_Stack#How_to_start_with_the_sample_Rails_project.3f

I hope it helps.

Jota

believe1813 2015-08-06 14:35:31 UTC #3

Hi @jota,
Thanks for the reply. As mentioned, I had already enabled security permissions in my AWS console for all incoming and outgoing traffic. Just now, I went back and specifically enabled only port 3000 (and obviously port 80 for http), but still no luck. The ruby console output looks as it should. Can you think of any other reasons I can only access the homepage on port 80?

jorgemarin 2015-08-07 11:19:35 UTC #4

Hi @believe1813;

By default, the sample project will listen on localhost:3000 so you can only access from localhost at port 3000.

If you want to access from another computer you should tell Rails to bind to another IP (your Public IP or 0.0.0.0)

Executing the following command will let you access your sample RoR project from your browser at publicIP:3000

sudo /opt/bitnami/projects/sample/bin/rails server -b 0.0.0.0 -p 3000

Regards;
Jorge

believe1813 2015-08-07 14:21:06 UTC #5

That worked!! Thanks so much for your response!
-MJ-

system 2017-11-16 13:23:53 UTC #6

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